The Magic and Mystery of Now
A One-Day In-Person Meditation Retreat
Jeff Carreira
with Jeff Carreira
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Saturday, December 7th, 2024
10:00am - 5:00pm
Balanced Planet Yoga, 795 E Rte 70, Suite F, Marlton, NJ
$110

During this retreat we will explore how to focus our attention on the immediately arising present moment.

We have all learned to experience life through the lens of time, we experience an unfolding from the past to the future. But deep meditation reveals that only the present exists.

We’ve all heard about the ‘power of now,’ and know the value of ‘being here now,’ but how often are we actually profoundly present in the now?

We’ve all had moments of the magic and mystery of now. We’ve fallen into a state of profound presence in which the world comes vividly to life and anything seems possible. But what happens when we don’t just glimpse a moment like this, but learn to rest in it effortlessly?

Miracles happen! Resting our awareness in the present moment opens a cascade of insight and revelation about who we are and how reality works. Our inner eyes discover a new world of possibility and our life finally makes profound sense.

On this retreat you will have the space and guidance needed to tap into this profound presence and rest there effortlessly. This will invite the magic and mystery of now into your experience.

Sincerely,

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Jeff Carreira
Co-Founder & Director of Education, Emergence Education
What We Will Explore on this Retreat
 
Effortless Meditation
During this retreat you will discover effortlessness in meditation. In order to harness the full spiritual power of your practice, ease of being must become your habitable relationship to practice. In meditation you will learn to simply rest in contentment and resist turning your practice into an effortful activity. You will discover yourself trying to be peaceful by pushing thoughts and feelings away. It will become obvious that you can never attain effortless meditation by working at it. You will be encouraged to be easy in meditation so that a habit of effortlessness begins to grow. In the context of our day together, it is possible to develop this habit so that your experience of meditation becomes easy and free.
The Realization of Your True Self
Developing a meditation practice that is easy and free will allow you to sit comfortably for extended periods of time while remaining effortlessly attentive to the reality of now. This is as far as practice itself can take you, but it is not as far as you can go. If you spend time sitting in peaceful meditation eventually your awareness will slip into a profound recognition of your True Self. At that point you will see that the easy, open awareness you are experiencing is all that you are. You are not a thing that has awareness, you are the awareness that is aware and you always have been. At this point you will no longer be able to make a distinction between practicing and not practicing, and it will feel like you are in a constant state of meditation.
 
 
Navigating the Path of Awakening
Once you have established a constant state of peaceful calm abidance a new journey begins. As long as we are struggling against the way things are we are preoccupied with problems and unavailable for spiritual realization. When we rest effortlessly in easy, open awareness we are ready for a breakthrough. On this retreat you will learn how to gently navigate into the spiritual potentials that open to you in the powerful experience of presence that you build in your practice. When you learn to rest while following the path that opens in front of you, miracles begin to happen. The journey of awakening happens naturally as long as we are easefully at rest and ready to go wherever the path leads.

Retreat Details:

You will receive materials that provide all the information you need to support you to create a true retreat experience during these 4 days.

These materials will include:

  • Detailed instructions for setting up your retreat space.
  • Information for using the video conferencing platform.
  • Guidelines for making the best use of the virtual format.

This is a full virtual retreat conducted live with Jeff Carreira for 8-hours each day.

Each day will begin with meditation, followed by an hour of spiritual instruction and guidance that will create context for that day’s practice.

Each day will end with a 30-minute session when you can engage with Jeff about your experience of practice and ask any questions that come up for you.

The rest of the day will be spent in silent practice with a 90-minute lunch break.

Recordings
Each morning teaching and each evening Q and A session will be recorded and made available to retreat participants in the protected online portal.
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What past retreat participants said about their experience...

"The impact for me was most profound. On integration day an awareness of the Truth arose in me and left me totally flummoxed. Just what I have been working for, for so many years. I am truly a different person than the one who started the retreat last Friday. Profound gratitude to Jeff and the team."

~ W. Francis.

"The daily teaching, Q&A's and and meditation sessions were so powerful, they brought such calm and flow to me and in turn to my family. Jeff's teaching enabled me reach greater depth in my meditations as each day passed."

~ T. Bird.

"Jeff’s instructions and felt his passion to lead us into a available view of the world and ourselves. My life is so completely different. I’m looking out with Cosmic Eyes now... Wow So simple and so wonderful. Thank you."

~ N. Torrence.

"This retreat was a wonderful and profound experience of sinking into the depth of Being. Experiencing blissful happiness and liberation, just abiding there, without needing anything. Even in the face of challenges from outside, like a noisy neighourhood."

~ J. van den Bogaard.

"The retreat came at the perfect time in my life. It was the calm at the end of an internal and external storm that led to deep insights and deepening Awareness of my True Self. Jeff has an ability to transmit deep truths that find a home in soul."

~ M. Earlenbaugh.

"The retreat was eye opening and life-changing, giving me a new understanding of me as a soul, and deepening my relationship with it. Giving all day to meditation for a few days, rather than an hour a day for a prolonged period, has brought changes in me that are indescribable. I did not want it end!"

~ J. Aebi.

Registration

The registration fee is $110 per person.

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All sales are final. No refunds will be available if you choose to cancel.